Even cropping in MS Paint is agonizing.

quoting Rhetorica, Duchess of Space:

In principle, MS Paint is adequate for mapping—all one truly needs is the ability to set RGB values of pixels individually, and the rest is one form or another of laziness. (cue+or do i mean queue jokes about butterflies, magnets, xkcd being funny, and so forth) That doesn't mean it won't be anguish or yield hideous results, though.

Can confirm both.

quoting Rhetorica, Duchess of Space:

In principle, MS Paint is adequate for mapping—all one truly needs is the ability to set RGB values of pixels individually, and the rest is one form or another of laziness. (cue+or do i mean queue jokes about butterflies, magnets, xkcd being funny, and so forth) That doesn't mean it won't be anguish or yield hideous results, though.

Truth. But it does teach one humility, which is the main reason why I use MS Pain(t).

Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.

quoting Morrígan, Baroness:

Even cropping in MS Paint is agonizing.

Not in Seven and later; they added a crop button for the selection tool. Now the only thing that's agonizing is doing the math in your head to get a desired aspect ratio. Once again, technology that offloads responsibility for failure onto the user reigns supreme.

Oh. It used to be worse? Because that right there is what I'm talking about.

To crop images I prefer to use Microsoft Office Picture Manager. To resize them, Paint.NET.

Wait, there's a way to crop images that's not moving the desired section left/up and then adjusting the right/bottom borders?

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.

Neurotypical people do not see humility this way.

Speaking of maps, any suggestions on how to figure out vector drawing? Aside from the obvious (googling it and/or potentially youtube tutorials), of course. I've only really done from-scratch bitmap work and you can only adjust so many pixels by hand before admitting you're wasting huge amounts of time.

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.

Humility != being humiliated
Humility == being humble

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

Speaking of maps, any suggestions on how to figure out vector drawing? Aside from the obvious (googling it and/or potentially youtube tutorials), of course. I've only really done from-scratch bitmap work and you can only adjust so many pixels by hand before admitting you're wasting huge amounts of time.

You'd... need to say where you're stuck, I think? 'cause that's super open-ended. Step 1: run Inkscape. Step 2: draw squiggles with mouse using pen tool. Done!

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

I get the feeling sometimes that I'm about the only person (who isn't an antipiracy nut or open source eugenicist) that doesn't have an installation of photoshop somewhere.

What is an photoshop?

quoting Morrígan, Baroness:

Even cropping in MS Paint is agonizing.

Even worse: cue setting the pencil size.

(Dunno if anything changed since Windows 7. I have never worked with anything newer than Vista and not being Linux for longer than an hour.)

MS Paint was completely redesigned for Windows 7, as were Solitaire and Minesweeper. Personally, I still long for Windows 3.x's PaintBrush, which was actually slightly more featureful than Paint—until the latter finally got decent save formats in XP. (Although they also removed some—the 95 version lets you save in PCX, iirc.)

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.

This is true. At least I have not found that being humiliated would inspire in me any noticeable humility.

quoting Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia:

Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.

It depends only on your perception of “good”.